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A collection of poetry by black writers from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Britain and the USA. It includes work by Bengamin Zephaniah, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Zinziswa Mandela, Maya Angelou, Rabindranath Tagore alongside traditional poems.

Auden, Day, Lewis, Spender, MacNeice and the other key poets of the Thirties were children of the First World War, obsessed by war and by communalism, by the class-struggle and a passionate belief in poets as people whose actions are as publically important as their poems.For them, the Spanish Civil War epitomized the mood of the times, as their symbolic obsessions were transmuted into tragic reality. But from within their strongly defined unity of ideals, an astonishingly varied body of poetry emerged...

'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.' This wonderfully comprehensive anthology of African poetry has been expanded to include ninety-nine poets from twenty-seven countries, thirty-one of whom appear for the first time. Equally wide-ranging is the content of the poetry itself: war songs and political protests jostle with poems about human love, African nature and the surprises that...

There are ten sections in the book, all illustrated in glorious full colour by a different illustrator, each as varied in their style as the poets. And an interview with the relevant poet begins each section, so you can find out a little more about them.

This collection illuminates the uniquely fascinating era between 1820 and 1950 in French poetry - a time in which diverse aesthetic ideas conflicted and converged as poetic forms evolved at an astonishing pace. It includes generous selections from all the established giants - among them Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud and Breton - as well as works from a wide variety of less well-known poets such as Claudel and Cendrars, whose innovations proved vital to the progress of poetry in France. The significant...

Living in a revolutionary age, Coleridge's poetry was written in a spirit of moral and emotional inquiry into the absolutes of the human condition. He is best known for his visionary poetry ('Kubla Khan') and his ballads ('The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'), but he used and transformed a variety of verse forms, from the sonnet to the conversation poem, on subjects as diverse as nature, love, and politics. This selection calls attention to the range of Coleridge's work, its strong autobiographical...

Goethe viewed the writing of poetry as essentially autobiographical and the works selected in this volume represent over sixty years in the life of the poet. In early poems such as 'Prometheus' he rails against religion in an almost ecstatic fervour, while 'To the Moon' is an enigmatic meditation on the end of a love affair. The Roman Elegies show Goethe's use of Classical metres in homage to abcient Rome and its poets, and 'The Diary' , supressed for more than a century, is a narrative poem whose...

From joyful poems such as 'The Flea', which transforms the image of a louse into something marvellous, to the intimate and intense Holy Sonnets, Donne breathed new vigour into poetry by drawing lucid and often startling metaphors from the world in which he lived. His poems remain among the most passionate, profound and spiritual in the English language.

Imagism was a brief, complex yet influential poetic movement of the early 1900s, a time of reaction against late nineteenth-century poetry which Ezra Pound, one of the key imagist poets, described as ‘a doughy mess of third-hand Keats, Wordsworth … half-melted, lumpy’. In contrast, imagist poetry, although riddled with conflicting definitions, was broadly characterized by brevity, precision, purity of texture and concentration of meaning: as Pound stated, it should ‘use no superfluous word, no adjective...

Imagist Poetry (Penguin Modern Classics) by Peter Jones (Author) Format: Paperback (192 pages) Edition: New Ed ISBN 10: 0141185708 ISBN 13: 9780141185705 Publisher: Penguin Classics Published: 29 Mar 2001 2 in stock Item Condition: Brand New Price:£8.77List Price: £10.99You Save:£2.22 (20%) Quantity: 1 2 Add to wishlist Or buy from Amazon.co.uk Other Formats and Conditions Format Used Price New Price Paperback £2.59 -- Description:Imagism was a brief, complex yet influential...

Poetry of the Thirties (Penguin Modern Classics) by None (Author), Robin Skelton (Introduction) Format: Paperback (304 pages) Edition: New Ed ISBN 10: 0141184574 ISBN 13: 9780141184579 Publisher: Penguin Classics Published: 28 Sep 2000 5 in stock Item Condition: Brand New Price:£8.22List Price: £9.99You Save:£1.77 (18%) Quantity: 1 2 3 4 5 Add to wishlist Or buy from Amazon.co.uk Other Formats and Conditions Format Used Price New Price Paperback £2.59 -- Description:Auden,...

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Book Title: The Penguin book of Italian verse (Penguin poets). Author: Kay, George Robertson. ISBN: B0000CMM5E. Publisher: Penguin. Year Published: 1965. Status: Sold - We are currently out of stock for this title.

Book Title: The Theban plays; (Penguin classics). Author: Sophocles. ISBN: B0006BYH8E. Publisher: Penguin. Year Published: 1951. Status: Sold - We are currently out of stock for this title.

Penguin Book of Imagist Poetry (Penguin Modern Classics) by Peter Jones (Editor), ED.PETER JONES (Author) Format: Paperback (192 pages) ISBN 10: 014008309X ISBN 13: 9780140083095 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Published: 28 Apr 1988 Temporarily out of stock Item Condition: Used - Good Price:£2.69List Price: £3.95You Save:£1.26 (32%) Temporarily out of stock Add to wishlist Or buy from Amazon.co.uk

The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (Penguin Classics)

About this book The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry is an incredibly vast compendium that covers 1,500 years of Irish verse, including translations from Old English. Compiled by Patrick Crofty, this anthology is superbly organised and masterfully arranged, making it easily navigable as well as thoroughly enjoyable. Including the work of three Nobel laureates – W. B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney – as well as many other top writers, this collection goes where others haven’t, featuring epigrams...

This wonderful anthology includes all the great love poems in the English language, with passion, urgency, simplicity, heartbreak and renunciation that superbly represents "man's changeless responses to the changeless seasons of the heart."

The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's 'Tyger', Coleridge's 'Khubla Khan' and Shelley's 'Ozymandias' alongside verse from less familiar figures and women poets such as Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson. We also see familiar poets in an...

About this book There are almost as many definitions and different sorts of love as there are poets. Edited on the assumption that any poem which speaks of one human's desire for another is a qualifying factor, "The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry" is a rich and diverse anthology which ranges through time and fashion. Passion, urgency, simplicity, heartbreak and renunciation are all here in a volume that superbly represents 'man's changeless responses to the changeless changing seasons of his heart...

COmprehensive selection of First World War poetry from Sassoon, Owen, Blunden, Rosenberg, Hardy, Lawrence, et al.

The period 1820-1950, from Lamartine to Char, is a particularly rich field for students and lovers of poetry. While this anthology contains, of course, generous selections from the established giants - Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Valéry, Apollinaire, Michaux - it also draws attention to interesting 'minor' poets, such as Claudel or Cendrars, whose writing has been vital to the evolution of poetry in France. William Rees gives us an introduction to each poet, his or her life, affinities and aesthetics...

A sequel to "Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse" which covers the post-Baxter period, from 1971. It adopts provocative selection criteria, seeking to make a statement about future directions of NZ poetry. 536pp.

The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry (New in Paperback)

Unrivaled in its range and intensity, the poetry of World War I continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This newly edited anthology reflects the diverse experiences of those who lived through the war, bringing together the words of poets, soldiers, and civilians affected by the conflict. Here are famous verses by Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, and Wilfred Owen; poetry by women writing from the home front; and the anonymous lyrics of soldiers songs. Arranged thematically, the selections...

The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry features the work of three Nobel laureates - W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney - as well as Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Moore, Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Eavan Boland and James Joyce. It also includes epigrams, traditional verses and Old Irish songs, with 250 new English translations by the greatest poets currently working, including Seamus Heaney and Ciaran Carson. Reflecting everything from Ireland's rich history of writing about the land...

This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains: the poems are arranged thematically and the themes reflect the different experiences of war not just for the soldiers but for those left behind. This is what makes this volume more accessible and satisfying than others. In addition to the established canon, there are poems rarely anthologised and a selection of soldiers' songs to reflect the voices of the soldiers themselves.

Francis Kilvert's diary shows a compassionate and thoughtful delight in the people and beautiful surroundings of the English countryside. With good cheer he records his loves (among them poetry and the attentions of pretty girls) and his dislikes (including a distaste for bathing in knickers that leaves more than one beach scandalized), as well as the town folklore and parishioner's stories that his tender interest in others arouses. Heartfelt, humorous and reflective, this is a transportive glimpse...

A wonderful selection of over 100 of Roger's own best-loved poems from his vast Puffin catalogue of poetry collections. Lots of favourites and some lesser known surprises, too. Packed with fabulous Lydia Monks illustrations throughout.

What's the difference between short leg and deep midwicket ? When would you be thinking about bowling a yorker ? What's so great about the sound of leather on willow ? Cricket’s vocabulary is a mixture of jargon and cliché, poetry and prose, misty-eyed romanticism and old-gits’ cynicism. Arm-ball to Zooter is a witty guide to the peculiarities of the game, its history and major figures; cricket-lovers might find their own pet hates confirmed; cricket newcomers might be amazed at what cricket-lovers...

A fantastic epic and magical adventure story set in a beautifully realised world that's almost but not quite like our own. Barkbelly is a wooden boy, brought up by loving human parents, whose life falls apart when he accidentally kills one of his playmates and has to go on the run. His journey turns into a quest for his real home and his real mother, and takes in along the way the circus, fierce pirates and mysterious giant hedgehogs. Full of poetry, magic, and dark twists of fate, Barkbelly discovers...

A massive leap. In fact it’s a leap that took about 18 years to make. I first tried to write a prose novel in 1990 but the novel turned into a novel-in-verse. I then tried to write a prose novel with Soul Tourists and that turned into a novel-with-verse. Each time I tried to write prose my use of language became flat and uninteresting. Finally, with Blonde Roots, I managed to keep the spirit of poetry but to write prose.

One night in June 1943 James Swift, along with the Lancaster bomber he piloted, vanished. In Bomber County , his grandson Daniel seeks to discover what happened. At the same time he tries to understand the men who took part in these dangerous raids, as well as their devastating impact on the civilians below. In examining the life of one pilot, Daniel Swift also investigates why it is we have tried to forget what was then a new, shocking form of warfare, and why literature and poetry exploring these...

‘You can hear McGough’s voice in these poems; not just his speaking voice, but his poetic voice, poking gentle fun at pretension and shining his poemy torch in dark corners…I’m a McGough fan, and I have to say that if it hadn’t been for him and a few others like him, standing up in pubs and schools and universities all those years ago, then we would never have had the poetry boom we’ve got now’ Ian McMillan